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I've got an updated list at User:WhatamIdoing/WPMED invitations. In the past, I've sent personalized messages. This is partly because you want to look at their contribs and see whether this is likely to be interesting and productive, so I thought: Why not say "Thanks for your work on Article" while you're there? Please skip anyone who feels like a poor match for WPMED's group, or whose name you remember seeing at WPMED in the past. Blank names from the list after you've contacted them.

As for what to say, I've had a lot of positive responses, but what I want ("read and participate in the discussions at WT:MED for the next decade or two") seems a little nebulous for a lot of less experienced editors. Cookbook-style directions seem to be wanted. That's why I thought that the referencing drive would be a good opportunity. If we can give them a list of things to do – click here to sign up, follow the step-by-step directions on that page – I think that would be well received.

WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:57, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Congratulations on the FA for prostate cancer! This is a remarkable achievement regarding a field that many Wikipedians are too scared to even touch. You should be proud! Panini! • 🥪 02:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "In 1 in 8 men, some cells in a small gland beneath the bladder go haywire. They grow and grow, eschewing the checks meant to bind them in place, and evading the ever-watchful immune system. Some split off the growing tumor, settling most often in nearby bones. In their race to grow, they digest the bone beneath them, causing excruciating pain and bone fractures. 350,000 men succumb to the disease each year, making prostate cancer the second deadliest cancer in men (after lung cancer, the subject of a 2023 FAR). Many thanks to SandyGeorgia, Colin, and Femke for shaping the article with their suggestions and feedback. My intention is that the article be clear to the medicine-literate and medicine-uninitiated alike, so please have a look and let me know what you think."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dracunculiasis scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 22 May 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 16:48, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "My first trip to FAC (2020) was for Buruli ulcer, an infection characterized by a skin wound that is intriguingly painless. This one is much the same. Another wound disease. Though this time it burns like hell, and a meter-long worm crawls out of it. Many thanks to Colin, SandyGeorgia, and Draken Bowser for their feedback, which dramatically improved the article."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help with continued violation of WP:NPA by editor

I am hoping you might be able to help with an issue at Talk:Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. A user has been told, multiple times to stop violating no personal attacks policy, and has continued, in response, to make personal attacks. User also seems to fail to assume good faith of the discussion, and does not seem to want to adhere to Wikipedia's policy on consensus. This user's overall behaviour was also brought up in concern by Lil-unique1 at this noticeboard in February 2025. My also stem from their assumptive behaviour earlier this year. I would appreciate it! Thanks. livelikemusic (TALK!) 16:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And I highly doubt this edit is deemed acceptable, per WP:BATTLE/WP:SARCASM and perhaps Wikipedia:Don't retaliate. livelikemusic (TALK!) 16:29, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why you've reached out to me for this, as I have no history in this topic, but I've read that discussion and here's my opinion. You're both being difficult, and that discussion runs in circles. What constitutes a personal attack is contextual, and can be challenging to communicate and identify. I've been providing multiple different sources and you two have been doing the bare minimum and ignoring what I've been proposing is not crossing the line – or even really toeing the line – in my humble opinion. You're more than welcome to post at WP:ANI for more opinions.

I see you have been around a long time, but I'll offer a piece of advice: Do not repeat yourself in a text-based discussion (this works in real life discussions as well). Nothing good can come of it. It makes the person you're disagreeing with feel unheard and railroaded. It makes you annoyed. It makes the discussion a headache to read. If you find yourself at an impasse on a talk page, go find more editors to weigh in. Repeating yourself won't change minds, but will raise tempers. I'm sorry I couldn't resolve your concern, but I do wish you all the best, Ajpolino (talk) 16:45, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also unintentional WP:CITEVAR violations are the lowest form of Wikipedia problem. Citation styles are confusing to newcomers. Us old-timers can fix them. Don't threaten others for unintentionally violating CITEVAR. Ajpolino (talk) 16:47, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do not repeat yourself in a text-based discussion (this works in real life discussions as well). Nothing good can come of it. It makes the person you're disagreeing with feel unheard and railroaded. It makes you annoyed. — While I can agree, when that is being done unto you (or myself in this instance), it left me feeling the same, exact way, and unfortunately spiraled into a continued pattern of repeating on both my behalf and their behalf. Thankfully, a third editor came in and provided their point of view, and unfortunately, the continued cycle continued. And, from my perspective, I didn't threaten anyone over WP:CITEVAR (at least at best of my acknowledgement)—merely just remarking it is a continued issue on the page, both in edit summaries and within the talk page discussion.

Accusing someone of doing the bare minimum simply is not civil in any way, shape, or form. Wouldn't that equate to me going in and stating I've been editing near-on 19 years versus their one-year? I'm quite certain I've been warned concerning that type of behaviour prior back in my younger-editing of years, as it could be seen as biting newcomers.

I have heded what you have said, and do appreciate it. Also, in addressing to I'm not sure why you've reached out to me for this, as I have no history in this topic, I was directed via the recently active admins log, as found at WP:ANI. livelikemusic (TALK!) 17:39, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]